In 1934, Barnett Cohen was appointed first Archivist of the Society of American Bacteriologists (now ASM). One of Dr. Cohen's long-term projects was to compile a history of the science of bacteriology in the United States, comprised of regionally focused chapters written by the scientists who were involved in the early days. Although the project was never completed (Cohen died suddenly in 1952), a number of chapters did get written: some were published elsewhere, and some exist only in manuscript. Those chapters were the beginnings of the regional history collections. For Cohen's correspondence concerning this project, see Main Archives Inventory, 7-II A, Folders 4 and 10

Cohen also initiated the practice of holding a symposium at the Society's Annual Meeting exploring the history of bacteriology in the area where the meeting was being held. Copies of many of the papers presented at these symposia are maintained with the records of the Annual Meetings, and are listed here: Symposia on the Local History of Bacteriology at the SAB Meetings

see also W.H. Park text on history of NY Department of Health Labs, 13-IIN, Folder 3; see also Ward MacNeal Papers

"Medical Research: Papers by Richard H. Shryock and Others on the Occasion of the Establishment of a Graduate Education Program at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Oct., 26, 1956." [Shryock paper only; others excised]

Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 54:4, 1964. Includes history of D.C. branch, article on ATCC dedication, regional history

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UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE

See also MS version of Chapter 9 of Bess Furman Armstrong's History of the U.S. Public Health Service, with comments by Alice Evans, 13 II-AD, Folder 2. Miscellaneous Public Health materials are in Vertical Files- PUBLIC HEALTH

"Public Law 410 (78th Congress), 1944. 'Public Health Service Act.'"

Public Health Reports misc. issues, 1903, 1936, 1939

Miscellaneous Publications, 1947, 1951, 1955

Stimson, A.M. "A Brief History of Bacteriology in the Public Health Service of the United States." MS, 1937. 120pp. Also, rpt as "Bacteriological Investigations of the United States Public Health Service," Supplement #141 to the Public Health Reports, 1938

"Notable Contributions to Medical Research by Public Health Service Scientists. A Biobibliography to 1940." Compiled by Jeannette Barry, 1960. 96pp

"The United States Public Health Service presents the Work of the Public Health Service." film text, 1936. 35pp. ["movie available in film archives, National Library of Medicine:" note of Toby Appell, ca. 1986]

Haas, Victor. "Infectious Disease Research in the Public Health Service: A Historical Review." Text of speech, 1962, 23pp.

Student summary papers on history of bacteriology at Wisconsin, 1966: 1pp, 2pp.

"His Inquiring Mind." Radio script by Lois Fossum re H.L. Russell, for Wisconsin School of the Air, 1952. 12pp

"Presentation of Portrait of Dr. Leon J. Cole to the Saddle and Sirloin Club by the American Society of Animal Production," 1939. Includes remarks by H.L. Russell

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The Yellow Cardinal. vol. 2 (1932) through vol. 33 (1970). Missing vols. 19 & 24. "Issued irregularly at picnics spring/summer of the Department of (Agricultural) Bacteriology of the University of Wisconsin. A 'take-off' on the daily student paper with anonymous stories about department faculty and graduate students." [note of L.S. McClung]

Bound University of Wisconsin course materials (from L.S. McClung; see also David Perlman Papers):